Useless facts you need to know

I was browsing on the web and found this list of useless facts. Although most are quite useless there are some very interesting ones, I especially like this one "The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes." Go Zanzibar!!!!

• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
  
• The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
  
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
  
• Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.
  
• If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
  
• Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  
• Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
  
• The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.
  
• The average human swollows 8 spiders in their lifetime at night while they sleep.
  
• A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
  
• It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
  
• In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
  
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  
• On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building is an American flag.
  
• All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
  
• No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.
  
• "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
  
• All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
  
• Almonds are members of the peach family.
  
• Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
  
• Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
  
• The youngest pope was 11 years old.
  
• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
  
• A snail can sleep for 3 years.
  
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
  
• China has more people who speak English than the United States.
  
• The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
  
• A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

AND HERE ARE SOME MORE POINTLESS FACTS:

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
  
• Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world?
  
• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
  
• "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
  
• The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it refers to a distinct part of DNA.
  
• Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
  
• Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
  
• You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
  
• The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
  
• Cat's urine glows under a black light.
  
• Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
  
• The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
  
• If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
  
• Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, dogs only have about ten.
  
• Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
  
• In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
  
• If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human's neck.
  
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  
• Polar bears are left-handed.
  
• The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for animal having the most taste buds.
  
• The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
  
• The first novel ever written on a typewriter was Tom Sawyer.
  
• Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
  
• Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
  
• More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes.
  
• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.
  
• TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
  
• If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.